Dropping off Spotify

JUST IN: All four members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young have reunited to take on Spotify. They've pulled their respective solo catalogs as well as the music they made together from the platform.
slightly wrote:
JUST IN: All four members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young have reunited to take on Spotify. They've pulled their respective solo catalogs as well as the music they made together from the platform.


Kind of what I was waiting for…

It’s cool they could agree on something

Some of these guys had been good friends for decades before Nash and Crosby fell out with Neil

Personally CSNY is one of those bands I don’t get at all but their influence in the early 70s was huge… I was surprised reading Costello’s bio about how much he was into CSNY and the Band…same with Nick Lowe…those were their gods as young aspiring musicians
Did you see this poster I posted recently? It really shows the simultaneous breadth and insularity of 60s & 70s California rock.
Justin wrote:
Did you see this poster I posted recently? It really shows the simultaneous breadth and insularity of 60s & 70s California rock.


Yeah that’s pretty great….

And it doesn’t even mention the Grateful Dead and Joni who both supposedly learned a lot about harmony singing from Crosby for two of my favorites: American Beauty and Blue

The Byrds really get short shift these days but they are the tree trunk for so much
Starsky wrote:
The Byrds really get short shift these days but they are the tree trunk for so much


One of the very few American bands with contemporaneous influence on The Beatles (plus The Beach Boys).
Justin wrote:
Starsky wrote:
The Byrds really get short shift these days but they are the tree trunk for so much


One of the very few American bands with contemporaneous influence on The Beatles (plus The Beach Boys).
and the stones too
CSNY fans are the core Qobuz demographic  ;D
kosmo wrote:
CSNY fans are the core Qobuz demographic  ;D
koz gets .00034 every time he mentions Qobuz, and I just doubled it by quoting him ;)
slightly wrote:
kosmo wrote:
CSNY fans are the core Qobuz demographic  ;D
koz gets .00034 every time he mentions Qobuz, and I just doubled it by quoting him ;)


Sweet


https://twitter.com/qobuzusa/status/1488927529318727680?s=21

Get Qobuz Duo for only $0.89 more per month! Our special Valentine's Day offer is available now until February 14, 2022. This discounted rate does not expire, even when your subscription renews
Mary Trump

Looks like a CNSYT tour is really happening
Cliff Hillis

and for those in the cheap seats pipe down.. he writes fantastic Power Pop songs and should be a household name but alas…
kosmo wrote:
Cliff Hillis
all I can tell from his twitter feed is he is pretty bad at wordle and not afraid to admit it
Amazing singer. All she does is hold her mouth open and the words come flying out.
I #standwithjohn


“Don’t leave, don’t abandon, don’t censor, engage,” Stewart said to Rogan’s critics on the latest episode of The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast. “I’m not saying it’s it’s always going to work out fruitfully, but I am always of the mindset that engagement, and especially with someone like a Joe Rogan who is not, in my mind, an ideologue in any way…
Stewart then said the rhetoric surrounding Rogan is “overblown.” “This overreaction to Rogan, I think is mistake,” Stewart said. “I really do.”
70 episodes of the JR podcast

It’s unclear why the episodes in question were pulled, and representatives for Rogan and Spotify did not respond to Rolling Stone‘s requests for comments. However, eagle-eyed fans of the controversial podcast on Reddit observed that many of the deleted episodes contained racial slurs, ableist language and other content that could be deemed insensitive. Users noted episodes featuring Tom Segura and Greg Fitzsimmons were likely removed for usage of the n-word. (The repeated usage of racially charged language on the_ Joe Rogan Experience _led singer-songwriter India Arie to pull her music from Spotify earlier this week.)


Cue outrage from the free speech crowd
The rabid-right will screaming censorship from every corner of Twitter

When it’s just a just a business, not protected by 1A and I’m ok with that